We are recruiting on behalf of a food production company who deliver bespoke culinary solutions for the restaurant, retail and wholesale sectors. The company manage projects from concept to end product.

About the job:

Our client is looking for an NPD Chef / Assistant to work and assist in their new product development section. You will be supporting the NPD Chef with every aspect of concept through to delivery. You must have a passion for food!

Responsibilities:

• Printing tasting sheets for the week; carrying out organoleptic testing on samples.
• Preparing ingredients for production.
• Reporting to the finance department on a monthly basis.
• Researching current, emerging and future food industry trends.
• Designing dishes based on trends/customer ideas.
• Writing new recipes concept to delivery.
• Fully costing recipes and sourcing new ingredients
• Taking customer request and converting to recipes suitable for factory environment.
• Managing time effectively to ensure deadlines are met, with reactivity to unexpected occurrences both in the factory and the kitchen which affect planned schedule.
• Liaising with suppliers and customers.
• Writing process sheets.
• General kitchen cleaning.
• Making lists of ingredients required for samples and gathering from stock/ordering samples when necessary.
• Cooking samples, tweaking as required to satisfy customer, cost and yield requirements.
• Arranging sample deliveries to customers.
• Supervising manufacture of new product lines in factory.
• Writing organoleptic/visual reference sheets for all new products.
• Raising purchase orders and ordering stock lines when required.
• Full participation in factory trials and first cooks of all new products.

Experience you need:

Ideally you will be a classically trained but with an understanding of mass catering/production and fine dining.

Hours of Work:

Monday - Friday 08:00-17:00 (also must be flexible for product launches or any other business needs)

What do you need to do next?

Send us your application so we can contact you to get the ball rolling. Don't delay as we are recruiting as quickly as possible for this exciting opportunity.

FPR Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.